Word: scoundrel
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...said: "There are no morals in politics ; there is only expediency. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
...home-front scoundrel of World War II, the day of reckoning had arrived. He was the highfalutinest of U.S. draft-dodgers, Serge Rubinstein, 38, who made several millions as a wartime Wall Street adventurer (TIME, May 6, 1946). In Manhattan's federal court last week, fat, shifty-eyed Serge Rubinstein was found guilty of giving his draft board false information about 1) his dependents and 2) his essentiality to some of the 17 oil and aviation companies he controlled. His sentence: 2½ years in jail, plus a $50,000 fine. If he behaved himself, Rubinstein would be eligible...
...caption warns the audience, straight off: "This is the story of a scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan...